4th Scrambled Messages Workshop: Time
Friday 8th May 2014 2.00-6.30pm
The Courtauld, Research Forum South Room
The fourth and final Scrambled Messages workshop on the subject of time was wonderfully broad. Discussions had a distinctly other-worldly feel to them as participants contemplated Vonnegut's imaginings of time from the perspective of an alien race and Proctors pre-Einsteinien understanding of the relationship between time, distance and speed in space. Time dimensions inherent in different physical senses and the way senses are represented across different disciplines were discussed. And we also examined how cycles of periodical publication in the 19th underlay everyday experiences of time and served to punctuate and mark the year.
Readings
Proctor, R (2011 [1871]). Other Worlds Than Ours. In Victorian Science and Literature vol. 3. Pickering and Chatto, London. Available online here.
Turner, M W (2002). Periodical Time in the 19th Century. In Media History 8:2, pp.183-96. Available online here.
Vonnegut, K (1969). Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade. Delacourt. pp.1-18. Available online here.
Witmore, C (2006). Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time: Symmetrical Approaches to the Mediation of the Material World. In Journal of Material Culture 11(3) pp.267-292. Available online here.
Participants
Many thanks to our able and interesting participants for a most insightful day.
Caroline Arscott
Professor of art history at Courtauld Institute of Art. (Scrambled Messages.)
Greg Bailey
Research Fellow in Archaeology and Screen Media, University of Bristol.
Simon Baker
Curator of Photography and International Art, Tate Modern.
Adelene Buckland
Lecturer in English literature, Dept of English, King’s College London.
Anne Chapman
PhD candidate (Scrambled Messages) in the Dept of English, King’s College London.
Seb Franklin
Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Dept of English, King’s College London.
Natalie Hume
PhD candidate (Scrambled Messages) in art history, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Nicola Kirkby
PhD candidate, Dept of English, King’s College London.
Cassie Newland
Post-doctoral RA (Scrambled Messages), Archaeologist in Dept of English, King’s College London.
Clare Pettitt
Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture, Dept of English, King’s College London. (Scrambled Messages).
Mark Turner
Professor of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, Dept of English, King’s College London.
Nell Stevens
PhD candidate, Dept of English, King’s College London.